So I "wrote" one of these before, and I thought that I should write a blog post tonight while I'm procrastinating my Poem-A-Day make-up poems, so here we go. Here's another itunes shuffle poem brought to you by the randomness that is my itunes. Voila!
I feel it incumbent to warn any readers in advance that this poem includes random capitalization because I put it in Word originally and I was too lazy to play with the capitalization. It also includes strange line breaks that I fiddled around with just because I could. Good times.
1. Open up iTunes or the equivalent (or if you prefer, use your MP3 player)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Play 21 songs.
4. If you come across an instrumental song, skip it and play another song instead. Otherwise, no skipping!
5. Write down the first line of each of the first twenty songs. This is your poem. You can't change the line order, but you can group the stanzas however you like.
6. The first line of the twenty-first song is your poem's title.
Good times for a change
By: Brianna
When I look
into your eyes
I see sunshine:
The piano is not firewood
Yet.
You think I’m
an ignorant
savage:
Elope with me Miss Private
and we’ll sail around the world
(Where I go when I go there).
Oh yeah, oh yeah,
I’m falling
D
O
W
N
Time to lay claim
to the evidence.
If I was a flower
growing wild and free…
If you love somebody,
better tell them while they’re
here.
There’s a song that’s
inside
of my soul:
Black crows
on a blue sky,
always making a mess.
Goodbye L.A.
Morning falls like
rain into the city life.
Don’t talk,
don’t say
a thing…
And if your heart
stops
beating
I’ll be here
Wondering…
Come with me and you’ll
be in a world
of pure imagination:
I had visions, I was in them.
Sunshine go away today,
Seems I’ve got to have
a change of scene--
Feelin’s gettin’ stronger.
The mixed-up ramblings of a 20-something writer and nerd.
About Me
- Brianna
- Ever a contradiction: I'm a pessimistic optimist, a practical idealist, a messy perfectionist, a shy yet outgoing, distracted yet organized, procrastinating yet prompt oxymoron. And I'm also on Twitter! @BriannaKratz
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